Display box



March 23 ,1926. 1,577,507

E, WILDER ETXL- DISPLAY BOX Filed Dec. '9, 1922 g m m Patented Mar. 23,1925.

UNITED TATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERSKINE WILDER, OF HUBBARD Woons, AND ALBERT J. OLLENDORF, or OAK PARK,

ILLINOIS.

DISPLAY BOX.

Application filed December 9, 1922. Serial No. 605,964.

ularly to containers for advertising display.

Among the objects of the invention are, the supplying of a boxconstruction whereby fiber may be employed for the production of displaycontainers; the provision of a box construction of simplified, structureand formed from interfitting blanks of fiber or the like; the productionof a unique structure for a box with reinforcements disposed withrespect to. the strain thereupon; and the provision of a novelty'inblank formation whereby to produce in the finished container anoutstanding reproduction of an object to be displayed in conjunctionwith,

the container.

. These, and such other objects as may here:

inafter appear, are obtained by the novel construction, combination andarrangement of the several parts of our device, which is fullyvdisclosed in the accompanying single sheet of drawing, made apart ofthis specification, and in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of pleteddisplay container Fig. '2 and Fig. 3 illustrate the two blanks employedin our box construction;

Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the container along the line 4-4 of Fig.1 looking in the direction of the arrows;

Figs. 5 and 6 are fragmentary sectional details along the lines 5-5 and66 of Fig. 4, and

Fig. 7 is a vertical section of the display container inclosed'position.

Like reference characters are used to designate similar parts in theseveral views of the drawing and in the description of the device whichfollows.

I In order to understand the invention, refthe comerence will first behad to Figs. 2 and 3, which illustrate the blanks from which our displaycontainer or box is produced.

In Fig. 2 is the blank A, which provides the outer section of thebottom, designated 10, the rear wall or back side of the box designated11, and the top or cover of the display cabinet, which for purposes ofdescription is divided into three sections later to be discussed. Withthe exception of two extensions projecting from the back wall 11, suchextensions being designated 12, the blank A may be wholly rectangularalthough it is desirable to round the corners of the top thereof. Thepoint of folding intermediate the bottom section 10 and the back wall11, and the back wall 11 and the top, are deeply scored, such scoresbeing indicated by the dotted lines in the figures. Between extensions12 and the back wall 11 are similar deep scores.

Thefirst of the three sections of the top is the rear portionf13adjacent the back wall 11 and out of the material of which the object orobjects to be depicted (in this case a shoejsole) is or are out, exceptfor a short section or portion thereof which projects over into thesecond section of the top, designated 14, which is separated from therear portion or section 13 by scoring as indicated by the broken line inFig. 2. Said scoring extends the full length of the material exceptacross that portion of the object or objects which project from section13 over upon section 14. The numeral 15 is used to designate the partlycut-out object to project above the folded box cover. The last andoutermost section of the cover may be called a lip, and is separatedfrom section 14 by a score also indicated by a broken line.

In Fig. 3, the second blank which includes the remaining portions of ourbox structure is illustrated and designated by the letter B. Such blankB comprises a bottom portion 16 corresponding in configuration to thatof section 10 of blank A, upon which latter section said section 16 isplaced in the assembly of the box structure. The front of the boxcomprises two narrow sections contiguous to section 16, and separatedtherefrom and from one another by scores. The front side or portion ofthe box is designated 17 and is only slightly greater than one half theheight of the box, while the extension thereof,designated 18, is foldedover against the inside of front 17. in the completed structure. Tackssuch as are clearly illustrated in Fig. 5 are disposed at spacedintervals to hold section 18 in proper relation to section 17, andelsewhere in the structure where required.

The blank B further comprises two wing.

portions separated from section 17 by scores, but cut entirely clear ofsections 16 and 18 during the stamping out of the blank. The wingsreferred to are identical except that one is a right hand wing and theother is a left hand wing and each is of a length equivalent to thewidth of the finished box.

Said wing portions are rectangular in configuration and each comprisesthree sections. The largest of said sections is designated 19, and is ofthe same width as section 16, and is separated from theremainingportions of the wing by a score which is an extension of that separatingsections 16 and 17.

The next adjacent portion of each wing is designated 20 and forms theend of the box. As already indicated, said sections are separated fromsection 19 by scoring which scoring indicates the line of the bottom ofthe box structure. Extensions 21 separated from end portions 20 byscores parallel to the longitudinal outer edge of section 18 completesthe blank structure with the exception of the short scores betweensection 17 and each of the wing sections which scoring connects the linecuts intermediate sections 16 and 18 and said wing portions As has beenindicated, the first step in assembling the box is to fold section 18over onto section 17 and tack or clamp the same into position. Thesecond step is to fold the wings upwardly with respect to the centralsection of blank B. Section 19 should then be folded to a 90 angle withrespect to section 20. Blank B is then placed upon blank A with section16 coinciding with section 10, and with section 17 forming one outermostextremity of the structure. Sections 19 are'disposed within the box torest upon section 16. The three bottom thicknesses 10, 16 and 19 arethen clamped or glued together. Sections 20 are thus made to projectbackwardly from section 17 to form the ends of the container. Theextension 12 of the back wall 11 are folded inwardly and then tacked tothe inside of the lower portions of sections '20. Extensions 21 are nextfolded inwardly over the walls of sections 20 and of ex tensions 12, andthe whole tacked together, which operation completes the production ofthe box.

If the box is to be used in closed position, the top is folded along thescores intermediate sections 11 and 13, and 14 and the lip, so that saidtop section extends overthe top of the container, and the open and upperportion of the front side of said container is closed by the lip bentdownwardly at a 90 angle from said sections 13 and 1 1-.

To display soles, a sole being the object particularly referred to inthe specific construction here shown, the top is folded at 180 upon thescore between sections 13 and 14, the section 13 then being an extensionupwardly of the rear Wall 11, and the section 15 being an extension ofsection 14: vertically downward. When section 1a is folded inwardly uponsection 13, as indicated, the cut-out portion or tongue 15 becomes anextension from section 14;, and projects upwardly above the foldintermedi ate said sections, as is clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 4. Thelip or extension 15 is inserted inteiniediate the end wall 20 and therear wall 11, the extension 21 engaging the extreme ends of lip 15 tohold it in vertical and parallel alinement with rear wall 11 and section13.

The material which we have employed with considerable success is fiber,and we believe that this is the first successful embodiment of fibermaterial in a display container.

Of course other materials may be e1nployed, but one of the objects ofour invention is the production of a structure adapted and suitable forsheet fiber. .It is manifest that'many other articles very differentfrom a shoe sole may be depicted by the cutout portion 15, and ourinvention is not limited, therefore, either to a projecting portionshaped to represent a shoe sole, or to the specific structure hereemployed, for many modifications thereof may be made without departingfrom the spirit of the invention. Our invention, therefore, is fully setout in the claim hereto appended.

e claim:

A carton for packing and displaying merchandise, comprising two blanksof sheet material and having the upper edges of its ends and its frontof two thicknesses of material, each of said blanks being ofsubstantially rectangular configuration and provided with two separatedextension portions, said blanks cooperating one with another, when inassembled relation, to provide for said carton a bottom of threethicknesses of material, the body of the first of said blanks providingthe back, top, and a lip at he front of said carton, the extensions onsaid blank forming means for uniting said first blank to said secondblank, and the second of said blanks having extension portions andforming two layers of the bottom of said carton, the reinforced ends,and the reinforced front thereof, the extension portions of said blankoverlapping the extension portions of said first blank for uniting saidblanks one to another, said first blank being adapted to be foldedlongitudi nally through the top section thereof to eX- pose in outlinean object advertising the contents of the carton, the cover section.When so folded being held upright by the overlapping portions of theextensions on 10 said second blank.

ERSKINE WILDER. ALBERT J OLLENDORF.

